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Scientists have analyzed the enormous Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet, and predict it will come within 11 AU of Earth in the next 10 years.

Researchers have found that aging produces significant changes in the microbiome of the human small intestine distinct from those caused by medications or illness burden.

Researchers have combined a fiber-laser system with recent advancements in multi-pass cells to create a laser with a unique combination of few-cycle pulses at high average power, pulse energy and repetition rate and with...

Ancient cut marks on mammoth bones unearthed on a remote island in the frozen extremes of Siberia are the northernmost evidence of Paleolithic humans ever found, according to archaeologists.

A subsea electricity cable in the North Sea will allow renewable electricity from Norwegian reservoirs to power 1.4 million homes in Great Britain

The females of a Central American butterfly species can see UV colours that males can't, which hints the species divides labour by sex in a way that's similar to some monkeys

Salient choice alone can have a powerful range of psychological effects, including the personal empowerment of an individual.

People overestimate feelings of awkwardness when talking to strangers and underestimate the enjoyment of deep, meaningful conversations with those we have just met.

Daily release of glucocorticoids depends on coordination between the clock gene and activity rhythms of neurons within two parts of the hypothalamus.

Findings shed new light on the gut's enteric nervous system, offering hope for treatments for a range of disorders.

Love letters that Marie Antoinette wrote to a Swedish count have been impossible to read because he added extra handwriting on top of hers - but now the original words have been deciphered with X-rays

A group of French researchers has uncovered censored phrases in letters exchanged by Marie Antoinette and her close friend-- and rumored lover -- Swedish count Axel von Fersen.

More than half of U.S. women will experience at least one urinary tract infection (UTI) in their lifetimes, while a quarter will have a subsequent infection. Recurrent urinary tract infections are defined as two or more ...

A team led by researchers has profiled in unprecedented detail thousands of individual cells sampled from patients' brain tumors. The findings, along with the methods developed to obtain those findings, represent a signi...

Researchers have made a surprising discovery about the human gut's enteric nervous system that itself is filled with surprising facts. For starters, there's the fact that this 'second brain' exists at all.

Merck announced promising trial results this week, but the full data has yet to be released.

Chinese researchers recently discovered a new effect that can generate spin-polarization in fluid. The new effect, which is called "shear-induced polarization (SIP)," predicts that shear flow can induce polarization in t...

A team of researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, working with a group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has developed a non-invasive way to image Wigner crystals directly. In their paper publish...

The color in a diamond comes from a defect, or "vacancy," where there is a missing carbon atom in the crystal lattice. Vacancies have long been of interest to electronics researchers because they can be used as 'quantum ...

What are your glutes, what do they do, and does bike riding build your glutes?

The discovery of genes that directly cause obesity could pave the way for treatments for a condition that affects more than 40% of American adults.

Researchers analyzed idle thoughts for 10 minutes. What they learned may be useful in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health issues such as depression.